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by djjose 15y ago
Thanks for the feedback @spokey. What would you consider a sweetspot price-point for you at the 5 person test? We discount down the more users you add to the test: 3 at $249 and 5 at $399. As for your questions: 1) Generally 10-15 minutes
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by djjose 15y ago
real clickable: http://researchnation.net
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by djjose 15y ago
here's the link for people that just like to click like me. :) http://www.mobileusertests.com
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SHOW HN: MobileUserTests.com
4 points by djjose 15y ago|5 comments
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by djjose 15y ago
True. The point I was trying to get across is that lock-in doesn't necessarily stop devs or people from jumping in. The potential to save or make money is to me the more powerful driver.
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by djjose 15y ago
I obviously don't have hard numbers on this but I can say from my own experience we purchased macs exclusively to build iOS apps for clients. We run a pretty lean shop so we viewed buying macs just for web dev a luxury item. We spent the m
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by djjose 15y ago
Not so sure that's the driver here. Many devs have bought into the iOS ecosystem. This certainly isn't cheap: macbooks, imacs, iphones, ipod touches, ipads. It's also a pretty deep dive to get into. On the web side, I really think cost is
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by djjose 15y ago
Apple does a pretty good job of this, no? And to be fair, the Dreamcast was about as open as a 7/11, but that didn't fair too well for Sega.
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by djjose 15y ago
My worry with your argument (if I'm following correctly) is why should we compare/base US immigration policy on the policy of other nations? If we accept that US policy is more favorable than others, is it purely acceptable to meet the low
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by djjose 15y ago
Just filled out the opt-in form ( https://secure.delicious.com/settings/optin ). Can't wait to see what they do with it. Note to the new owners: if you charge, I'll gladly pay.
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by djjose 15y ago
I venture to say that even anonymously, people would exaggerate their salaries. Perhaps this could be curved downwards though to get a good estimate.
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by djjose 15y ago
I may be in the minority (I doubt it), but I have no problem paying for content. This includes books and music. As a now-hobbyest DJ, Beatport was a godsend in terms of being able to get hard to find music and at a high quality. Paying 0.99
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by djjose 16y ago
I've used both and performance-wise my team didn't see any drastic differences. We switched to EC2 mostly because of RightScale (which now also runs over top of RackSpace). It's not cheap, but running on RightScale has made server mainten
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by djjose 16y ago
I wish I had this ages ago, great job!
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by djjose 16y ago
One of the projects in my CS program using recursion was a 6-degrees of Kevin Bacon game. It was neat and real-world practical IMO.
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by djjose 16y ago
I just don't see this as a viable business (big enough market or a market sustainable by charging a large enough margin). It'd probably be a fun project to take on at one of the Hack-Weekend type events.
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by djjose 16y ago
AltaVista is owned by Yahoo. No engineering or product personnel were allocated to it when I was at Y!, it's essentially on maintenance mode.
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by djjose 16y ago
forgot to add, to minimiza downtime we perform this dump and import during a slow period. If you're using PKs just note where your dumped tables leave off. When ready to roll to prod just put up your maintenance page, export from producti
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by djjose 16y ago
We had to do this a few times with large databases. To save some time we recreated the table structure we had (use something like Navicat to make life really easy and copy over the structure). We then exported our DBs into CSV files and use
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by djjose 16y ago
Happy April Fools! :)
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by djjose 16y ago
Find a new girlfriend/boyfriend based on one you already like! http://blog.alikeplaces.com/2011/alike-places-launches-new-p...
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by djjose 16y ago
You can read more about it here: http://blog.alikeplaces.com/2011/alike-places-launches-new-p...
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by djjose 16y ago
Pretty cool! Noticed a possible bug though. Mouseover the left image gives me a vote url param of r and right image param yields l. Could cause some weird reports for ya if you hadn't noticed.
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by djjose 16y ago
Am I the only one who's first thought that came to mind when reading up on Color was the Sonar SuperComputer App in Batman: The Dark Knight? I don't mean this to be silly but the concept seems very similar in terms of data and perspective
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by djjose 16y ago
-babysitting service -be an aws mechanica turk -submit content to any of the content farms does she have any hobbies or interests she can possibly build a product/business idea from?
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by djjose 16y ago
I lol'd when I read "you're now a Muncher!" South Park episode of Catman's mom comes to mind. Interesting idea, I'd probably try it if it was available in Miami. Down here, something really popular is the concept of Food by the Pound (Blue
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by djjose 16y ago
You may laugh, but I still use Delicious religiously and will until I export it to something equally as effective, simple, and useful. Close 2nd and 3rd are Dropbox (I could use a shared FTP server and mount it as a drive, but why?) and Gm
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Show HN: aLikePlaces.com, the Pandora of Restaurants
1 points by djjose 16y ago|0 comments
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by djjose 16y ago
I admit it's an interesting idea at first thought. However, usually gift cards are perceived as lame gifts by me and my friends/family. The train of thought usually goes something like "I couldn't think of anything to get you because I don
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by djjose 16y ago
True, but it's not obvious to non-techies (hence the article). I was curious how FB did logins when we were creating our API and site since I couldn't fathom them sending l/p's without https. A long look at their source on the homepage is

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